Opinion Columns
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Stories highlight more than a single agency's needMar 06, 2014 12:00 am - Few things are more gratifying to us than a lead like this one that appeared in our Wednesday editions: “After an outpouring of community support, the (Deicke home for a...
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Losing his head in CrimeaMar 05, 2014 4:01 am - Vladimir Nabokov considered Anton Chekhov's "The Lady with the Dog" one of the best short stories ever written. For what it's worth, I agree. The plot is a simple one. A...
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The Tea Party hangoverMar 05, 2014 4:01 am - The evidence accumulates that the Republican Party is sobering up - cotton-mouthed and slightly disoriented - from its recent ideological bender. The tone of some rheto...
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Mexicans' skepticism fuels legend of El ChapoMar 04, 2014 4:01 am - U.S. officials want to extradite the notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who was captured last month by Mexican marines and U.S. Drug Enforcement Admi...
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Defeating Dems, not the ACA, is the point of misleading adsMar 02, 2014 4:01 am - Politically speaking, here's the thing about those melodramatic TV ads attacking the Affordable Care Act: In terms of actual policy, they're as futile as the 40-odd vote...
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Obama's best hope for changeMar 01, 2014 4:01 am - President Obama's new outreach initiative to help at-risk boys of color - "My Brother's Keeper" - is cause for cheer. It isn't that we haven't known for some time that m...
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Cash dash pushing party politics asideFeb 28, 2014 4:01 am - To paraphrase an old folk song, "Where have all the politicians gone?" American electoral politics is in the middle of a revolution that is seeing political parties beco...
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The return of the unseenFeb 27, 2014 4:01 am - Each of the GPS satellites that allow me to navigate to a new restaurant carries an atomic clock that needs to be accurate in order to triangulate the speed and position...
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Susan Rice's false choiceFeb 26, 2014 4:01 am - Susan Rice ought to stay off "Meet the Press." The last time she was on she misrepresented what led to the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi. On Sunday, she was back,...
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Make love, not warFeb 26, 2014 4:01 am - We've heard much about the Republican war on women. Exhaustingly. Lately, we've also heard about the war on men. The war on men-on-women-on-men ... or something, as MS...